Observing the metaphor of hometown and being lost in Kafka's The Castle, we can know that the novel is based on Kafka's yearning and fear for family and gender relationship. Therefore, the castle became a abstract generalization of sexual relationship. K.’s pursuit of castle was associated with Kafka's longing for an ideal family and the fear of women's power desire. Nevertheless, Kafka had covered his own creative intentions, which makes The Castle a modern realistic fable of self loss in anxiety thus becoming a classic work wi...
